I don't know where, but I came across a information about bison version information for compiling XFree86. I'm not hurt that it didn't come from this list, but even an impolite "Use bison 1.35: RTFM!" would have been useful.
Thanks for good work on the other 8 gazillion files that did compile without a hitch. - Jamie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamie Risk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:17 PM Subject: Bison/Yacc problems ... > After opening the 4.2.0 tar balls and applying the 4.2.0-4.2.1 patch, I find > I'm getting a compiling error when bison tries to process the file > "./lib/Xft/xftgram.y". The CVS/RCS ID for the file is: > > $XFree86: xc/lib/Xft/xftgram.y,v 1.5 2001/05/16 10:32:54 keithp Exp $ > > And the error I get is this: > bison -y -d xftgram.y > xftgram.y:168.8: parse error, unexpected ":", expecting ";" or "|" > xftgram.y:169.3-6: $$ of `matrix' has no declared type > make[3]: *** [xftgram.c] Error 1 > > I checked the other "*.y" files in the distro, and there are other instances > of > what appears to be misplaced/missing semicolons in the grammar rules > sections. > > From the "./xc" directory, I looked for all (six or seven) "*.y" files and > tried > each with BISON version 1.75. > > I modified them all by hand (unwittingly adding semicolons where they made > syntactical sense to me to put them), and the compilation now seems to be > progressing smoothly as I write this. The whole exercise took only a few > minutes. > > As I'm new to X-Windows, particularly to XFree86 and its source code, could > someone verify this? > > Thanks, > - Jamie > > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
